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Germans Board a Ship, Soon to Arrive in America

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Germans Board a Ship, Soon to Arrive in America

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Germans suffered with immense economic struggles in their native country. In order to find more job opportunities and freedoms, they consciously agreed to immigrate to America. Understandably, the Americans and their national government were overwhelmed by the sudden increase in population. If this image depicted the impact immigration had on the American citizens, the overall tone of the image would be far less hopeful for the traveler's liberation and would instead be devastating in the eyes of American citizens.

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German Immigrant Delivers a Patriotic Speech to Encourage His people to Embark on the Journey to America, 1917

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German Immigrant Delivers a Patriotic Speech to Encourage His people to Embark on the Journey to America, 1917

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As expressed in other posts, Germany largely struggled with economics and finances. This German immigrant decided that the best decision for him and other Germans would be to travel to great America and start a new life. From their perspective, they saw the country as a place for growth in finances and job opportunities. There, they would presumably be granted natural rights, freedom, and equal opportunities for all. However, that was not at all what it was like for the immigrants. Not yet, at least. Furthermore, this journey to America was not only overwhelming for the immigrants themselves, American citizens and employers were stressed by the new growth in population. Adding the view of the American citizens would show the emotion behind the people who did not directly agree to the high increase in population. Immigrants would, over time, populate work rooms and take a high percentage of occupation opportunities from the nation’s legal citizens. Likewise, employers would understandably be very overwhelmed by the sudden increase in willing employees. Employers would undoubtedly enjoy the decrease in payments they would have to make to their employees, however, having hundreds upon thousands of immigrants begging you for employment would be very overwhelming.

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Russian-German Immigration: Letter from Daniel J. Keefe

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Russian-German Immigration: Letter from Daniel J. Keefe

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Keefe described the struggle of immigration in the excerpt below. He emphasizes the struggle of medical care, both mental and physical, and that because of the immigrants origins, they were discriminated against and treated unfairly. Additionally,as described in the letters, steamship operators were fined for each immigrant they permitted to bring to America. Some missing perspectives of this source, however, would be that of the American citizens themselves as well as the ship operators who permitted the transportation of the immigrants.By including what Americans may have experienced or felt during this time period, the reader could then understand the effects immigration has on the nation’s citizens rather than the hope and liberation of the German immigrants. Then, by including the ship cruisers experience with transporting Germans to America, the reader could then understand why these operators agreed to help them travel. It is likely they sympathized ith the Germans and understood their struggles, or it isn’t unlikely some ship operators may have been bribed or persuaded to liberate these struggling immigrants.

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Immigrants found work in any form they could in order to make enough money to get by. In their country, debt and inflation were obvious issues that prevented people from making money of any sort of worth. ON the other hand, during this time period, money was worth something. It was worth enough for people to use it in order to purchase groceries or afford a place to live. As shown in the following image, German immigrants went as far as performing independently on interesting locations to make money. This source may benefit from including the views of the native citizens and the nation's employers. Including the thoughts and opinions of the American citizens, the viewer can then feel the impact immigration had on the natives. Understanding how the large numbers of immigrants flooding into the country would make each citizen feel. Then, adding the perspective of the American employers would benefit the source in showing the viewer of impact the overwhelming amounts of immigrants taking jobs and creating occupations as well as some ultimately never being able to grab a hold of an occupation could have on the stressed employers.

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German Immigrants pulling into Ellis Island on a Ship (Video)

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German Immigrants pulling into Ellis Island on a Ship (Video)

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Germans rushed to America because there,they were offered more jobs and more chances to live independently and freely. In Germany, however, they were more likely to work in harsher and in more dependent conditions and still earn less money. Perspectives that are unfortunately missing but could greatly impact the audience's opinion on the video are both the American citizens perspective and the German government. The perspective of the ship conductor could show the audience why they agreed to transporting the German immigrants. The viewer then would understand why, under the conditions and risk put upon the operators in assisting the immigrants, they permitted allowing the immigrants to tag along on the cruise to America. Likewise, the German government could also help the audience determine their opinion on this video. Upon seeing the conditions the Germanic nation is in, as well as viewing who is in control and why they allow such strict working condtiions, the audience may then change their opinion on the video.

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Emigrants [i.e. immigrants] landing at Ellis Island

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"Don't Talk..." German Immigrant Discrimination Propaganda

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"Don't Talk..." German Immigrant Discrimination Propaganda

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This image depicts the hate thrown toward German immigrants solely for the reason being that they aren't legal natives of the country. This propaganda is derived from the views of high political figures opinions on the immigration of Germans into their nation, presumably made due to the effects immigration had on the American economy and other similar factors. However, this source is missing the voices from two important perspectives - The American Public and the German government. The American public’s perspective, (not government), could benefit this source if included by showing the opinion of the people of America rather than government-approved propaganda that is derived from the president’s views on German immigration. The German government could also express a great deal of information for this source if included by showing the reasonings for the nation’s actions and behavior toward its own people immigration and American’s reactions toward the transportation of Germans.

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Men and Boys Being Searched at Ellis Island

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Men and Boys Being Searched at Ellis Island

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Americans stressed their worry on allowing foreign strangers in their country for decades, unsure of the safety the American government promised them. They feared destruction and chaos might arise due to the high increase in foreign populations in the nation. Missing yet important perspectives of the source include the German population and the views of the ship operators who transported the immigrants to America. Including the German population as a perspective in this source could show the audience the perspective and struggles of travelling across the sea and continuing through the search process to then be discriminated against by natives of the country. By introducing the perspective of ship operators could reveal to the audience the risk behind agreeing to allowing Germans travel using their ship. It is not unlikely that ship conductors may have been charged an excessive amount of money for doing so and may have also been arrested or threatened for transporting the people to America despite the native people’s worries  and cries for safety.

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Process of Handling Continuous Immigration

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Process of Handling Continuous Immigration

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American security put strenuous work into assuring the safety of the American citizens as the arrival of immigrants seemed to continue and never end. Such work resulted in exhaustion for the workers who then, after dealing with said results, formed a harsh opinions on immigrants making their way into America. Two identifiable missing perspectives are  America's governmental officials as well as the general american population. Introducing the perspective of American government officials would show the audience not just the complaints from those working directly with the incoming immigrants, it would explain to them the toll immigration is taking on America’s economy and well being. Immigration is stressing the American citizens safety and is encouraging worry throughout the people. Similarly, the general american population’s perspective could further show the emotional effects immigration has on the people of said nation.

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Anti-immigration op-ed Arguing to Keep Ellis Island Open to Screen Immigrants

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Anti-immigration op-ed Arguing to Keep Ellis Island Open to Screen Immigrants

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American citizens worried about the logistics and safety they were once promised when an infinite amount of danger can be risen through immigration and permitting foreign, non-American citizens into the country. Many argued against the process of allowing immigration while others may have seen welcoming immigrants as a part of encouraging equal natural rights toward any person or persons. Either way, there was always a small sense of doubt among the people of America. Exercising the opinions and emotions felt on the side of the German population is important for building a stable and reliable source, however it is missing in this article. By including this perspective, the audience can see the effect the risk and worry the American citizens stressed had on the German immigrants. When immigration argument arose, many immigrants wee unsure if they would soon be able to continue their lives in the country of freedom where they could live with stable incomes and be guaranteed freedom. Additionally, including the perspective of the general public in America would help further support the effects given on the people of the nation who argued the safety of immigration.

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Ellis Island Faces Biggest Onslaught in U.S. History

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Ellis Island Faces Biggest Onslaught in U.S. History

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Immigrants were pouring into America at unbelievable rates. American security tightened it’s acceptance rates as Americans continued to stress their concerns of allowing strangers into their home. Screenings now promised a literacy test as well as several medical routines to ensure immigrants were “worthy” of being in America. American citizens were still on the fence of the large number of immigrants entering the nation, however, many citizens were pleased with the new and even stricter processes set for the immigrants. The feelings and opinions of the German population is largely abandoned in this source and does not allow the reader to consider the hardships and emotions Germans felt as the requirements to be accepted into America continues to get stricter and stricter. Also, the staff in which is employed to conduct the struct procedure at the “Welcoming Gate” is hardly considered. The staff is undoubtedly very overworked and stressed by the large amounts of labor they must under-go for the sake of the American population.

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Citizens State Their Opinion: "Construction and Improvements on Ellis Island Have Been a Waste of Public Money"

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Citizens State Their Opinion: "Construction and Improvements on Ellis Island Have Been a Waste of Public Money"

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The American audience was understandably very overwhelmed by the increase in foreign immigrant populations. That, no doubt, came with a toll on the nation. In order to ensure that each individual who enters the nation is rightfully allowed to enter and a non dangerous person, large expenses were being put toward improving and better constructing the “Welcome Gate”. Americans were not happy with this because this meant tax rates were skyrocketing in order to pay for such construction. The German population is not considered in the source because with strict and more advanced improvements to decide who is able to enter the nation, many of those who do not have basic abilities such as reading and writing as well as a generally decent amount of income, were often not permitted to enter the country. Furthermore, the American government’s side of the story is not mentioned. The expenses used in constructing and improving Ellis Island was used at the permission of the government and the citizens of America go and oppose the actions done to ensure safety. If we heard the government's side of the story, the audience and public could then understand why the government decided to conduct the construction.

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Precautions Taken at Ellis Island to Guard Against the Importation of Contagious Diseases

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Precautions Taken at Ellis Island to Guard Against the Importation of Contagious Diseases

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The addition of foreign strangers within a nation is certain to bring a wave of contagious diseases. Americans were not pleased at the rising rates of health-related fatalities that derived from both legal and illegal immigrants bring in new diseases. Citizens of America were furious as well as terrified. Each citizen worried about themselves, their children, and their neighbors. This caused many Americans to oppose the continuation of allowing immigrants into America. They wanted change. An important role that was not considered in this article was the staff at Ellis Island. Because of the new outrage against immigrants and the concerns of the American health, this meant staff would have to work even harder than they once were to ensure each immigrant is safe enough and healthy enough to allow into the country. Lastly, the ship operators who transported the immigrant from Germany to America were not thought of in this source. They were likely also affected by the spread of disease and medical care was likely not guaranteed for them. Some, if German, may have also been apart of the source in the spread of disease. However, since their perspective is missing, the audience may never know for sure.